Gods of the Plague

• Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Crime Drama
• Themes: Crime Gone Awry, Playing the Field
• Main Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer
• Release Year: 1969
• Country: WG
• Run Time: 92 minutes

Plot

Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's Fassbinder, however, playing the small role of a buyer of pornography. The main story involves a pair of two-bit hoods who spend most of the film one-upping each other with a brace of scheming females. Their dreary life of crime comes to a spectacular head in a shoot-out at a supermarket. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Hanna Schygulla
• Margarethe von Trotta
• Harry Baer

Ingrid Caven - Magdalena Fuller; Jan George; Lilo Pempeit; Irm Hermann; Günther Kaufmann; Peter Moland; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Katrin Schaake; Hannes Gromball

Credit

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Editor, Peer Raben - Composer (Music Score), Dietrich Lohmann - Cinematographer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Screenwriter

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